SALISBURY, Md. -- Cementing her name in the Christopher Newport record books with her second career 30-point scoring performance on Wednesday night, senior McKenna Snively helped lead the nationally-ranked Christopher Newport women's basketball team to a 71-53 win on the road against Salisbury University (14-9). The Captains improved to 18-4 overall this season behind Snively's historic shooting performance as the veteran guard went 10-for-13 in the game for 30 points including eight three-pointers. 

The Chapel Hill, N.C. native set her career-high with 32 points at Pratt Institute during her first season and added her second career 30+ point effort on Wednesday night. She joins an elite list of only nine former Captains to reach the 30-point plateau more than once in her career -- Chelsie Schweers (27), Karen Barefoot (12), Pam Stewart (8), Cathy Skinner (8), Misty Hart (7), Linda Richardson (5), Alice Streetman (5), Cynthia Allen (2), and now Snively. 

In addition to piling up the points, Snively put her name atop the single-game chart for three-point field goal percentage with a minimum of eight makes. She is just the third player (Schweers and Jessica Foster) to connect on eight three's more than once in her career and the first player in program history to do so on just nine attempts (.889). The 30-point effort was one of the most efficient in program history as she missed just three attempts from the field and finished with 30 points in just 21 minutes of action. 

As a team, Christopher Newport finished with a top-ten single game effort from deep with 13 made three-pointers on 25 attempts for a 52 percent shooting effort. The sharp shooting helped CNU build an early lead and the Captains finished with a wire-to-wire victory on the road. 

In the first quarter, sophomore Madison McKenzie kicked off the three-point party with a triple to give CNU a 6-0 start. Halfway through the period, Snively snapped the twine with her first and Mia Wilson followed with another make to force a timeout by the home team. In the final minutes of the opening stanza, Caitlin Crump became the fourth player to connect on a three and all four made field goals in the period for CNU came from beyond the arc. 

Despite the strong effort from deep, the game remained tied, 15-all, headed into the second quarter. That's when Snively caught fire. She scored 10 of the first 12 points in the quarter for Christopher Newport with two more triples, a pair of free throws and a driving layup to give CNU a nine-point lead, 27-18. Her contribution led CNU in a 16-3 run to start the period that saw Mia Wilson, Hailey Kellogg, and Hazel Grepps all add a deuce apiece. A short run at the end of the quarter trimmed the lead, but Snively sank another bomb from deep to end the half with 17 points and send the team into the locker room up six, 36-30. 

The halftime break did little to slow the senior guard, who raced out of the locker room with another five points at the start of the third quarter. The offenses slowed in the period overall, with Christopher Newport clamping down and allowing just eight Salisbury points in the third. CNU held Salisbury scoreless for over six minutes and Kellogg dropped in a long three from the left wing to put the Captains ahead by a dozen heading into the final ten minutes. 

A valiant attempt at a comeback by the Sea Gulls culled the lead to seven, 54-47, with 5:32 remaining, but again it was Snively to the rescue for the Captains. After a timeout, Kellogg found Snively in the corner for her sixth three; just over a minute later, she drilled two more and extended the Captains lead back to 12 with less than three minutes to go, 65-53. Kellogg assisted on all three of her final triples as the senior combo made sure the duo's last regular season trip to the Maggs Center in Salisbury, Maryland ended with a win. They will return at the end of the month to compete for the conference championship in the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Tournament starting February 26. 

In addition to the 30-point performance by Snively, the Captains got a 14-point showing from Madison McKenzie that included a 7-for-9 effort from the free-throw line. Mia Wilson had eight points with a pair of triples and Kellogg closed out the day with six points and eight assists. With her eight dimes, Kellogg eclipsed 250 for her career and now has a career-high 82 helpers in her senior season. She also moved over 400 career points and set a personal best with 111 points this season. 

Adding context to the historic shooting effort by Snively, the senior guard moved up to eighth all-time in three-point field-goal percentage for her career with a .341 mark (113-331). She is the first player in head coach Bill Broderick's coaching tenure to eclipse the 30-point boundary multiple times and the first Captain to do so since all-time leading scorer Chelsie Schweers concluded her career with an incomparable 27 thirty-point performances. 

The Captains will return home for a matchup on Saturday as the team hosts Regent University at 2:00 p.m. Kellogg and Snively will be celebrated on Senior Day prior to the contest.